Thanks for the artichokes!

One day at my mom's I noticed this beautiful ceramic artichoke in her kitchen, and I promptly stole it. I heard that my aunt had two more of them, and she very nicely offered them to me. This was good because I would have stolen them from her if she hadn't offered. Look how lovely they are on top of the kitchen hutch....


If you click on the picture to blow it up, try not to notice how much dust is on the greenery. I know. I need to fall clean.

Oh, we just ripped up the carpet in the office and pulled out like 14,500 staples from the padding. All right, we pulled out maybe hundreds of them, but it felt like thousands. Now for the tacking strips.